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With its prominent position in the smartphone and tablet markets, it's no surprise that Apple is a popular target in its competitors advertising as they seek to differentiate themselves from Apple even as they ride on the popularity of the company's brand and products. Samsung has been one of the...

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Samsung aired another of its series of Apple-mocking commercials during the 2012 Super Bowl tonight. In this ad, Samsung is pushing the new Samsung Galaxy Note. Like the previous ads in the series, Samsung depicts iPhone fans standing in line for the new iPhone, while promoting their own products as...

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Here's the latest in Samsung's ads ripping Apple customers who line up for the iPhone. Somehow we're supposed to believe that people who love the iPhone would jump out line for an oversized phone with a stylus. Or, maybe we're not. It's an ad after all, not a documentary....

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While the proverbial ink is still drying on the first reviews of Apple’s iPad — which you can peruse via our roundup — fans in Japan are already getting in the mood and queuing to buy the new tablet. The device will launch in Japan, and nine other markets, from...

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While videos and photos of unboxing Apple products have become commonplace, what about immortalising the moment through the memory of a smell? That thought came to three artists in Australia who have concocted a fragrance that will appeal to Apple fanboys the world over, the smell of the opening of...

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Well, we knew it was coming and now Samsung has predictably used a high-profile Super Bowl ad slot to promote its 5.3-inch Galaxy Note tablet-phone combo while taking another jab at Apple users. Standing out as a culmination of an unsubtle anti-Apple campaign launched nearly three months ago under the ‘The...

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Earlier this week, Apple extended support for its iTunes Store, iTunes Match and iTunes in the Cloud services to 12 new markets across Asia. While the move is undoubtedly a positive one, bringing new services to users in Asia and extending monetisation opportunities for Apple and developers, it is also notable...

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Many Apple fans on the opposite side of the Pacific from Cupertino haven't had much of a choice to shop from iTunes, even though they've had the App Store for some time. There's now a much better sense of balance: Apple just flicked the switch on the iTunes Store...

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Samsung’s new YouTube video campaign may move away from pushing specific products and devices, focusing on its memory solutions, but the company appears to be finding it incredibly difficult to move away from taking a bite out of Apple. The campaign centers on the frustrations that device owners may experience with their...

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According to New York Times technology columnist David Pogue, Apple still believes in desktop Macs, including both the iMac and the Mac Pro. The Mac Pro in particular has raised the ire of some Apple fans because it has been several years since the last update, and the update today...

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Yesterday, Samsung debuted another aggressive ad against Apple during the Super Bowl. The ad in question pushes Samsung’s latest-and-greatest: The Samsung Galaxy Note. While we could go into the details on why the Galaxy Note isn’t a true competitor of the iPhone’s, we won’t. Instead, let’s try to understand what...

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In case you’ve been living under a rock, sales of Apple’s new iPad — known popularly as the ‘iPad 3′ — begin today across 10 countries worldwide, with Australia, Japan and Singapore the three first markets to get the new tablet. Reviews of the device were universally positive however, with...

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If you use an iDevice, you’re aware of the slide to unlock functionality that Apple brought to the world. Sure, it’s a feature that you’ll find on most smartphones, but it’s something very unique and iconic to Apple. Folks at a company called The Falco Initiative have come up with...

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Two major business reform groups have planned protests of Apple Stores in six cities, urging the company to ensure the safety of workers who manufacture its devices. On Thursday morning, representatives of Change.org and SumOfUs will deliver petitions signed by hundreds of thousands of people, many of them Apple...

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Wednesday, March 7 is the date covetous Apple fans can finally catch their first real glimpse at the much-ballyhooed iPad 3, according to a new report. Citing reliable sources, iMore editor-in-chief Rene Ritchie declared that we can expect Apple to unveil its newest tablet on the first Wednesday in March....

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This morning Apple released the developer preview for Mac OS X 10.8 ‘Mountain Lion’, whipping up Apple fans and product owners into a frenzy as the Cupertino-based technology giant showed its plans to further merge the Mac OS and iOS platforms. As is customary with any big release from Apple, a number...

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The launch of the new iPad has seen Apple fans and enthusiasts worldwide given a new reason to get excited about the company’s tablet. For those in China however, where the device is yet to be launched, it marks a return to familiar territory: waiting on a delayed release date....

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A new report has found that Apple’s iPhone was the most purchased smartphone in Japan last year, seeing sales of 7.26 million, while Google’s Android operating system (OS) was the leading smartphone platform. A MM Research Institute report — translated by Japanese blog Macotakara – found that Apple sold 7.25 million...

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Apple’s new iPad has gone on sale in 12 new countries today, seeing brisk interest in the tablet device in Korea and Malaysia, which were the first to get it today. As Apple announced last week, its third-generation device will also go on sale in an additional ten countries across...

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In a quick peek behind the curtain at what life can be like as an Android developer, Netflix's Tech Blog has posted details of the testing process for each iteration of its app. According to Netflix's own stats, after being initially released for just a handful of phones nearly...

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Apple is rumoured to be making preparations to enter the television market, releasing new TVs later in the year that are expected to feature the company’s Siri technology and access to its expanding App Store. There has been no indication from Apple that it is working on such a device...

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Apple is about to take a huge risk with its mobile operating system, and nobody seems to be all that concerned about it. Various reports say it will boot Google Maps in favor of its own homegrown flavor of maps. Maps might be the number one most useful native application....

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Digitimes reports that Intel has apparently begun informing partners that mass availability of its forthcoming Ivy Bridge processors will be delayed until "after June". Intel is said to be sticking to its initial schedule calling for an April introduction of Ivy Bridge, but only very limited supplies of the chips...

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It's iPad launch day. And that means... Well, you know what that means. It means that the semi-annual ritual for thousands upon thousands of Apple fans has begun. We'd like to be able to offer some special insight into what compels people to stand in line for hours for...

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RIM hired a protesting flash mob to swarm a Sydney Apple Store chanting "Wake up!" and waving signs that said the same, as confirmed in a statement by RIM Australia to MacTalk: "We can confirm that the Australian ‘Wake Up’ campaign, which involves a series of experiential activities taking place...

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Is Ashton Kutcher set to play Steve Jobs’ role in an upcoming movie? The answer is yes, if Variety is to be believed – but is it? While the trade paper is usually a reference for all things movie, the fact that today is April’s Fools means that will have to take...

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Mobile vendors are not shy when it comes to head on battles and throwing stones at each other rather than creating advertising to promote their own product advantages. Now Nokia is trashing its competitors by drawing attention to their faults, branding other smartphones as ‘beta test phones‘ that are not...

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Just a day after Google was strongly rumoured to have accelerated its plans to launch a Siri-competitive, another mobile firm has jumped into the voice assistant space with its own product, after LG unveiled its own personal assistant service. Available only in its native South Korea for now, ‘Quick Voice’...

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Fortune yesterday released its 2012 "Fortune 500" list, ranking America's largest companies by revenue. As a result of its continued strong growth, Apple rose 18 spots from last year's rankings to land at #17 in the new rankings, which are based on companies' fiscal year reports.The company emerged from the...

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The Elevation Dock. Apple fans were largely responsible for the breakout Kickstarter hit that broke the half million dollar mark in only four days, a record at the time. That project, for the twin iPod Nano watches, ended up falling short of a mil ($942,578). But the Elevation Dock for iPhone,...